Saturday, January 30, 2010

Both the boxes are made from square sheets with the square to make the inner box slightly smaller than the sheet to make the outer box ,so that it fits.

I have taught this box to summer class students and also to lot of my students I have made a lot of these boxes over the years to box small gifts for my friends.

To make this box, take two square pieces of paper the paper for the outer box should be slightly bigger than the inner one. I have used an old wedding card ,I have made sure that the picture is at the center of the paper.

Turn the paper around and find the center .

Fold one edge of the square to touch the center.

Fold again the folded part as shown below.

Unfold ,

Repeat on all four sides,

You can see a triangle on each edge of the square.Now make a cut starting from the base of the triangle
until you reach the large square in the center(where I have marked ) on two opposite sides.

Fold the uncut edges along the folds that we have made earlier in such a way that the triangle lies flat on the square in the middle , Stick the triangles with glue to hold it in place.

Now fold the cut edges over as shown.

Stick the triangles of the cut edges too on the square at the center.

The picture is at the center of the box. This will be the outer box. Now repeat the same procedure for the inner box .

Thursday, January 21, 2010

I found this wonderful site which has wonderful tutorials. Here is a tutorial for quilled roses.

cut out a neat square, draw a spiral starting from the sides to the center, then you can use craft scissors to cut out the spiral or you can do what I did .I drew a wavy line along the spiral that I had drawn and cut along the wavy line.

start quilling the paper from the outer end to the middle and stick the end .

Monday, January 18, 2010

The center is a tight coil, for the outer circle take a strip of width about 1.5 cms in width.cut fringes along the length of the outer strip. Stick one end of the fringed strip to the tight coil and wind it tight and then stick it now press the fringes to form the flower.
width of center 0.5 cm.

Christmas time and back home, I though I will surprise my mother by decorating her home.

Being so proud of my own kusudama at home, I wanted to make one for her.Before I left Chennai

I had cut papers of 12cm squares and I thought I had 60 squares for 60 petals , but once I started to make the flowers I found at least 12 short in each colour( orange and blue) so I cut up some magazine covers and wrapping paper to make the rest of the flowers.

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I am a stay at home mom of two wonderful boys.I live in Chennai, India.I like crafting with paper and the art of paper quilling fascinates me. . I like to share my experiments with the paper strips through my blog.
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